I have this same issue. Unless a directory has an index.html to access, the browser give me a FORBIDDEN! message. So to simply make a folder with some files for download, rather than getting an index page jsut showing the files in there, it says FORBIDDEN! So basically I have to build an index.html file with the directories of the files just to access them.

I have this same issue. Unless a directory has an index.html to access, the browser give me a FORBIDDEN! message. So to simply make a folder with some files for download, rather than getting an index page jsut showing the files in there, it says FORBIDDEN! So basically I have to build an index.html file with the directories of the files just to access them.

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I dont think ist the same problem. planet_fox gets a error when he has a index.html file and not when he dont have this file.

But back to your problem, to get a directory listing, you must set the option "+indexes" for this directory in the apache configuration.

/etc/apache2/mods-enable and the mods-avalable is no mod_autoindex and I have see in a other apache configuration at home there is a mod_autoindex
in the apache.conf . I do copy the lines there is not in my apache.conf on server and i hope it works than.